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 Father, often you tell us to pray for things we don't want.

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 And so, Father, we're just being honest with you.

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 The way, Father, we deal with that is we just ignore it.

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 We don't bother praying about it at all.

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 We don't think of ourselves as being rebellious against you.

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 We just ignore it.

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 Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would do a mighty work in our lives,

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 that the Holy Spirit would bring the gospel to our lives in a deeper and deeper and deeper way

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 so that, Father, we hear your word and we long to try to live it and to pray it and to put it into practice.

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 So, Father, do that wonderful work in us this morning as we spend time studying your word.

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 And all this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 I don't want to be presumptuous about you folks that there's things that God tells us to do

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 that we don't bother doing.

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 But actually, that's true.

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 There's all sorts of things he tells us to do that we don't actually want to have happen.

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 And so, we just generally tend to ignore it.

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 Andrew, if you could put up the first point.

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 We're in a sermon series of all-around one-verse sermons.

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 And my hope is that you will want to memorize these scripture passages

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 and as you memorize them that you'll be able to pray them and meditate upon them and think upon them.

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 And it's easier to do that if you memorize them.

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 So, this is the second week.

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 It's a series of different verses which are well worth our time to memorize and meditate upon.

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 So, if you would just join with me.

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 This is the verse that I'm preaching on today.

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 Just one verse.

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 And by the way, if you come here in the fall, don't worry.

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 If I spend 35 minutes on one verse, if I preach 10 verses, I won't preach for 350 minutes.

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 It's just one-verse sermons.

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 So, if you would say this with me, please, that would be very helpful.

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 Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

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 Unite my heart to fear your name.

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 Psalm 8611.

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 Can you say it with me again?

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 Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

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 Unite my heart to fear your name.

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 Now, here's the thing about this.

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 It might be that for most of us as Christians, we know we're not really allowed to say that we don't want that.

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 But from a Canadian perspective, most people in Canada don't want any of that.

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 Or any of this, I guess I should just say.

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 Let's just be honest about that.

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 So, the fact of the matter is, is if we advertised in our services,

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 come with us this Sunday to fear the Lord, that would not draw the crowds.

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 It might draw the crowds of the curious to see who the kooks are

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 that want to actually gather together to fear the Lord.

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 But it's not a felt need.

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 It's not something that Canadians think they need or that they want.

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 In fact, lots about the text is very impressive.

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 Like, your truth?

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 Like, God?

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 Like, why do you think your truth is more important than my truth?

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 Like, why do you think your way is more important than my way?

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 Like, the way to grow as a Canadian is to become true to yourself,

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 true to your own way.

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 Not let anybody else tell me how to be happy.

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 Nobody can tell me how to be happy.

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 I have to be happy on my own terms.

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 That's what Canadians think.

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 Very interesting.

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 Many of you who are parents and maybe showed that pleasant enough movie Frozen to your kids,

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 go back and look at the words to the song.

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 That many of your young kids might have even learned the words of the song.

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 And you'll see that in the words of that song,

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 basically what they're saying is,

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 nobody can tell me how to be happy on their terms.

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 I'm happy on my own terms.

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 I'm happy in my own way, with my own truth.

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 I have to be true to myself.

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 And as our kids sing that song, that's what they're learning.

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 Now, some of you are here.

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 So here's the thing.

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 When I was in Angola a year ago,

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 one of the things which was so interesting for me about being in Angola with the missionaries

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 is that many of the missionaries in the mission agency that I was visiting,

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 health care was a key part of their mission.

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 I mean, they wanted to share the gospel,

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 but part of the way they shared the gospel was through health care.

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 By getting to know people, caring for their physical needs,

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 they would know that they were Christians,

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 and they would get to share the gospel with them.

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 And one of the problems that they had in going to the rural villages,

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 because they're in a community of about a million people,

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 but they went out to the rural villages,

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 and in the rural villages,

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 they might have to say something because the baby's sick or somebody's sick.

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 And so the nurse practitioner would say,

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 listen, when you come in, the doctor will give you some medicine.

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 And then the nurse would say, here's the things you have to do.

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 And one of the things they might say is that you can't drink the water here anymore.

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 And they would show them how to make the water clean.

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 And they'd say, the water is making you sick.

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 You can't drink the water.

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 You have to follow this procedure to get clean water or good water

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 that will make you healthy and not make you sick.

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 And then they'd also give them some medications that they had to take.

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 But the problem that they would run into time and time and time again

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 is that the people, they would all nod very politely,

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 because Angolans are very polite.

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 So they would nod like this.

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 But inside, while their head was going like this,

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 their inside head was going like this.

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 Because in their inside head, their inside head was saying,

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 what's wrong with our water?

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 Like, my ancestors have been drinking this water for generations.

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 I don't need your water.

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 Like, I don't need you white person to tell me how to have proper water.

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 So they would nod politely.

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 And then the nurse practitioner would leave.

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 And they wouldn't use the technique to make the water clean,

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 but they would use their own water, which was just making the problem worse.

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 And in many cases as well, they wouldn't take the medication,

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 because they'd think that what was really at matter

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 was something the witch doctor had said,

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 or some other way that they had offended against some spirit,

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 the spirit of the tree or the water or the bush or whatever.

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 And so this doctor was coming, or the nurse was coming,

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 and they were giving these people in these remote tribal areas

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 things that they didn't want, didn't think they needed.

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 So let's just think for a moment.

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 I mean, in Canada, we're far more sophisticated than in rural,

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 very, very deeply rural Angola.

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 We might all say we're far more sophisticated.

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 But let's just pretend for a moment.

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 Let's just at least give some credence to ask ourselves,

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 this psalm up here, this part of the psalm,

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 teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

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 Unite my heart to fear your name.

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 Maybe it's wise.

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 Let's just take it for a second to say maybe it's wise.

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 And it's telling us to do something that we Canadians,

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 who are very sophisticated, think we don't need and we don't want.

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 But maybe it actually is something that we need or we want.

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 Maybe in some ways we're more like a rural tribe in Angola

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 than we realize.

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 So let's look at the first thing.

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 Teach me your way, O Lord.

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 So some of you might say, well, okay, George, what's up with that, George?

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 Like, okay, you want me to sort of like not just dismiss it off of hand,

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 but actually look at it and take it into heart.

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 And it says, you know, teach me your way.

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 But George, what's up with that?

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 Like how on earth can it be that one size fits all?

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 Like are you saying that there's just one way for Angola

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 and one way for Canada,

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 one way for somebody who's sort of illiterate

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 and somebody has a PhD for a man and for a woman,

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 for a person who's gay,

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 a person who's heterosexual?

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 Like, like George, like that just doesn't make any sense to me

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 that there's just this one way.

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 And then the other thing that they might say,

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 if they're just saying, okay, George,

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 I'm going to take you up on your challenge.

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 I'm not just going to dismiss it.

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 Just roll my eyes and I'm going to actually look at it

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 and try to take it seriously.

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 But, okay, but George, let's say,

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 I don't know, George,

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 isn't this just sort of leading to you

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 just saying that you have to do the religious things

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 that you say you have to do that,

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 I don't know, I don't know,

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 you have to, I don't know,

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 read the Bible, go to church.

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 There's going to be a whole pile of don'ts

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 and a few pile of do's.

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 And most of the do's are just really pretty boring.

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 And I'm not even remotely interested in it.

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 Like George, it just sounds like religion

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 and it's just not, doesn't sound like very helpful.

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 Like I'm willing to maybe try to at least have a conversation

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 with you about it rather than just dismiss it.

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 But I just can't see this going anywhere.

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 Teach me your way.

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 Those are really, really good comments, by the way.

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 If you can get to a point where you have a conversation

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 with somebody like that and they say that,

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 those are very, very good.

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 And on one level, we have those types of fears

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 lurking deep in our own mind about texts like this.

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 So here's the first thing about this line

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 because my first point is teach me your way, oh Lord.

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 That's my first thing.

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 Well, what's it going on to say?

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 Well, here's the thing.

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 It probably is the case that when the person who wrote this

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 and the Jewish people who are reading this,

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 and even for many of us,

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 we might get a little bit uncomfortable

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 with what this imaginary person said

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 about thinking that there's just one way for rich and poor,

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 for gay and straight, for married and single,

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 and for Angola and Canada and Nigeria and Singapore

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 and Russia and Manhattan.

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 And we might get a little bit defensive

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 and we might talk a little bit about religion,

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 but at our heart of hearts,

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 even the way we try to defend the text

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 will show that we're in trouble.

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 Because we will start to try to talk about this text.

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 We'll try to defend it as something religious

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 when we as a Christian need to read this

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 in a very, very different way

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 than the original people would have thought.

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 Because you see, as Christians,

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 what's the thing that we should realize

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 when we read this text?

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 Is that no religion works.

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 I mean, part of the whole point

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 of Jesus' ministry

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 was to speak to people's hearts

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 about what they knew on one level

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 about their lives.

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 That nobody could keep

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 all of the different rules and commandments

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 in the Old Testament.

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 Like, nobody could keep them.

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 Nobody could keep them.

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 There's just too many of them.

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 And we're always breaking them.

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 And the fact of the matter is,

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 is that God doesn't want you and me to pray this

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 because it now is that

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 we all have to keep a whole pile of rules

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 and a whole pile of rituals.

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 And that's what the way is.

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 And God is to teach us

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 all of these different rules.

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 Like, as a Christian,

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 we should look at this and say,

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 one moment,

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 if I try to make myself righteous

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 and justify myself,

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 if I try to make myself right

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 with the living God,

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 if I try to just follow

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 all these commandments,

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 if I'm honest with myself,

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 it just doesn't work.

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 And the heart of the Christian faith

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 is that the gospel

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 isn't good religion

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 and it isn't good rules,

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 but it's good news.

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 And what is at the heart of the Christianity?

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 Is that the good news

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 is that God has provided a way

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 because no human being's way works.

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 No human being,

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 even when God reveals,

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 keep these laws,

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 keep these commands,

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 do these sacrifices,

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 do all of these types of things,

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 nobody's actually able to do it.

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 Like, nobody was able to do it

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 other than Jesus.

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 Nobody could do it.

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 So when we read this text,

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 see, here's the problem

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 for us as Christians,

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 and non-Christians

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 often pick this up about us.

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 On one breath,

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 on one hand,

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 we talk about grace,

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 but then after we've said grace,

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 we talk about what we have to do

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 as if there is no grace.

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 We talk on one hand

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 as if it's all what God has done,

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 but then after that's left our mouth,

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 two seconds later,

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 we're talking about what we have to do.

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 But when we pray this prayer,

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 teach me your way, O Lord,

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 what we as Christians should be saying is,

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 Lord, teach me the gospel.

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 Father, bring the gospel to bear.

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 May your Holy Spirit

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 bring the gospel to bear

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 at deeper and deeper

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 and deeper levels of my life.

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 Father, what this prayer is teaching us

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 to say is,

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 Father, I want to be honest with you.

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 I sort of remember the gospel,

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 but then immediately,

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 I think it's all up to what I do

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 and what I accomplish

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 and how I can make myself look good

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 and how I can justify myself

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 and how I can make myself righteous.

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 And then I start to feel guilty

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 and I start to feel overwhelmed by it.

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 And I sort of,

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 Father, I say I believe the gospel,

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 but as soon as I say it,

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 I forget it.

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 And the Christian growth

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 doesn't come by we human beings

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 developing better willpower

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 or increasing our IQ

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 or increasing our word power

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 or increasing our wealth

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 or increasing our power

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 or increasing our influence.

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 Christian growth happens

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 as the Holy Spirit applies the gospel

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 to more and more areas of our lives

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 where the gospel starts to become real to us

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 at a deep level.

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 That we start to think about money

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 in terms of the gospel.

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 That we start to think about sexuality

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 in terms of the gospel.

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 That we start to think about singleness

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 or marriage or children

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 or lack of children

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 in terms of the gospel

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 and how the gospel is forming us.

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 See, so for we as a Christian,

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 when we say,

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 teach me your way, O Lord,

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 part of that is,

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 Lord, teach me the gospel.

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 Bring the gospel.

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 Speak the gospel

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 into deeper and deeper layers of my life,

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 deeper and deeper places of my life.

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 Father, make the gospel real to me.

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 Make the gospel real to me.

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 It's not just about religion.

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 It's all about what Jesus did

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 to make us right with God.

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 What Jesus did

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 to make us reconcile to God.

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 About a year or two ago,

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 I had to get to the airport

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 really early in the morning.

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 I was going to Vancouver

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 and I was going to take,

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 I was going to a Christian conference.

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 And so I arranged a cab ride

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 the night before.

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 And sure enough,

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 at whatever it was,

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 5.15 in the morning,

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 the cab shows up at my house

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 and I get out

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 and the cab driver was,

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 this particular cab driver

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 was very chatty.

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 And so he asked me

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 where I was going.

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 I mean, he knew I was going to the airport

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 because that was all part of the arrangement.

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 And he said,

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 where are you going in Vancouver?

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 Now here,

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 I just remember,

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 I think last time I was here,

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 two Sundays ago,

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 I just asked to pray for me.

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 There's times,

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 like what went through my mind,

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 he said,

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 where are you going?

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 And what went through my mind is,

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 oh, I'm going to do some continuing ed.

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 That's what went through my mind.

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 But,

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 you see,

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 this is how we can bear witness to Jesus

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 in a very simple way.

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 But instead,

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 I realized that was a temptation.

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 What I said was,

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 well, actually,

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 I'm a pastor of a church

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 and I'm going to learn more about

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 what it means to be a Christian.

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 And how to live as a Christian.

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 That's what,

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 that's actually what I was doing.

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 If I had just said

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 I was doing some continuing ed,

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 I would have been sort of ashamed

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 of the gospel,

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 really,

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 wouldn't I have?

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 Just being honest before you.

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 So,

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 the cab driver was a Muslim.

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 His ears pricked up

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 and he immediately said,

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 well,

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 how can you be a Christian?

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 And,

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 you know,

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 the gospel,

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 the Bible is all full of errors,

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 et cetera,

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 blah,

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 blah,

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 blah.

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 And I,

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 I,

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 I,

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 I give a very quick answer to that,

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 an accurate answer about,

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 well,

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 actually,

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 you know,

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 we can trust the Bible more

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 than you think

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 and scholarship,

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 but give it like a two or three minute answer.

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 And then the conversation turned into a very,

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 very different way.

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 He said to me,

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 well,

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 he said,

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 okay,

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 that's,

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 that's good that you can be more confident in the Bible

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 than you can in the Koran.

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 But he said,

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 it doesn't get around the big,

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 the basic problem.

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 For many,

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 many years,

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 I tried to keep the Koran.

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 And now I,

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 I just tell my mom

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 and I tell my family that

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 how can a book written 1400 years ago

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 guide you about how to live your life today?

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 Like,

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 how can it be true?

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 And,

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 you know,

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 I,

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 I,

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 he said,

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 I keep Ramadan,

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 sort of,

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 I sort of cheat during the day,

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 but I really like getting together

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 with all my family

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 to have a big feast

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 at the end of the night,

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 but I don't like really being all hungry all day.

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 So I,

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 you know,

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 I,

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 I sort of,

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 I hide it,

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 but I,

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 and,

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 but he said,

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 the fundamental thing is,

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 it doesn't matter if your book is more accurate than mine,

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 is anything written so long ago

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 can't possibly be true for today.

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 And,

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 if you could put up the second line,

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 teach me your way,

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 oh Lord,

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 that I may walk in your truth.

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 I mean,

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 that's a really good point,

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 isn't it?

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 Like,

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 how is it that something that was written in our case

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 almost 2000 years ago,

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 how can it actually be something

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 that we can walk in today?

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 Well,

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 here,

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 here's several things in terms of why we should want to pray this,

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 that after we say,

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 teach me your way,

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 oh Lord,

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 that I may walk in your truth.

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 And remember that what we're praying

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 is that the gospel,

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 that God will have the Holy Spirit

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 bring the gospel to deeper and deeper and deeper layers

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 of levels of who we are.

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 And,

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 one of the things I actually said to the cab driver

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 is,

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 I said,

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 one of the things which is very remarkable about the Bible

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 is all the things that aren't in it.

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 I said to him that,

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 you know,

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 the Bible doesn't tell you a way to do economics.

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 It doesn't tell you a way to do science.

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 It doesn't tell you a way to do government.

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 It doesn't tell you a way to do diet.

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 That part of the reason I trust it,

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 apart from,

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 mainly I trust it,

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 because of Jesus and his death and resurrection,

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 I told him.

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 But,

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 it's amazing how much stuff isn't in it.

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 But,

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 what's being asked in this prayer,

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 it isn't as if the Bible,

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 the,

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 Jesus,

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 the God isn't calling us to pray this prayer

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 to say that everything you need to know

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 about everything is found in this book.

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 Like some of the,

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 you might know that if you talk to Muslim apologists,

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 they'll try to show how the Quran teaches modern genetics,

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 or it teaches modern science,

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 or it teaches the modern way about how things came to be.

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 And,

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 if you follow some Christian apologists,

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 they'll show you how that's just not the case,

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 which we wouldn't expect anyway.

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 But,

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 the Bible isn't like that at all.

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 And,

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 and what's at the heart of this prayer,

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 that I may walk in your truth,

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 for Christians,

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 well,

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 there's several things.

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 first of all,

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 what we're asking here,

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 is that I,

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 may I walk in your truth,

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 that I may walk in what is real.

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 Because that's the Christian understanding of truth.

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 The truth,

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 is knowing what's real.

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 And,

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 why wouldn't we want to know what's real?

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 Like,

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 isn't that a good thing to pray for?

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 The Bible,

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 the text isn't saying,

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 help me just to try to figure out how I'm going to,

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 I'm going to fix my Gmail account by reading the Bible.

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 And,

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 that just would be silly.

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 The,

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 the fact of the matter is,

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 is that the Bible paints this picture of this propulsive move,

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 towards just being able to know what is true,

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 what is real,

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 and actually know what is real.

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 And,

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 you can't know everything exhaustively,

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 but to actually know the real,

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 to know the truth,

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 and to know that the truth is good,

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 that God is true.

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 The second thing which this prayer is doing,

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 is it's making a claim,

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 and this is the thing,

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 I,

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 I'm not very good at communicating it,

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 when I share the gospel with non-Christians,

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 but one of the things I try to bring them around to saying is,

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 you know,

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 listen,

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 this,

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 the claim that Christians are making,

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 is that this is true,

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 that Jesus really did live,

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 that he really did die,

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 that he really did die in my place,

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 that he really did rise,

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 on the third day,

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 that he really did perform these miracles,

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 that it's true,

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 it's true the way,

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 that it's true the way,

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 your bank balance is true,

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 it's true in the way that you,

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 it's true to say that Ottawa is the capital of Canada,

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 it's true in these very,

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 very,

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 very deep and real senses,

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 and,

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 and so on one level it's saying,

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 this prayer is just saying,

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 Lord,

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 now help me to know,

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 in light of the fact that you really exist,

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 how the world really is,

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 because that's another part about it being your truth,

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 Canada is committed to the proposition,

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 that God does not exist,

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 and,

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 the Supreme Court understands its role,

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 to make its rules and its decisions,

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 on the premise that God doesn't exist,

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 and so would be the media,

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 and so would be the university,

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 but we Christians would say,

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 God really does exist,

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 and to know that God exists,

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 is not walking away from reality,

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 but entering into reality,

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 and understand how things really are,

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 and this prayer,

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 is an invitation for us,

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 to no longer be people of the lie,

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 but people of the truth,

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 you see,

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 at a very,

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 very,

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 very fundamental level,

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 God is true,

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 and he wants us to know the truth,

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 he wants us to know the truth,

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 about who we are,

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 he wants us to know the truth,

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 about the world,

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 he wants us to use our minds,

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 and our hearts,

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 and our imaginations,

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 and our wills,

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 to know what is true,

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 to know what is real,

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 to know that God is real,

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 that he really exists,

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 to know that,

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 that everything that we see,

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 is a created thing,

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 it's not something,

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 that just happened on its own,

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 and everything in the Bible,

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 is saying to us,

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 it is very easy,

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 to be people of the lie,

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 it's very easy,

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 to say that we want to know something,

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 because it will make us popular,

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 it's very easy,

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 to say we want to know something,

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 because it will give us honor,

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 it's very easy to want to know,

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 because we want to know something,

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 so it will mean that,

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 we aren't covered in shame,

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 It's very easy to want to know something because knowledge is power

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 or knowledge is just any of these types of things,

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 or knowledge will make us more money.

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 But the Bible is calling us to want to be people of the truth,

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 to know what is true, to know what is real,

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 to live in a world that is true and real,

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 to be losing as the gospel becomes deeper and deeper in our lives

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 that we no longer want to see the world from the perspective of illusion

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 or of power or of honor or of shame or of making money as the central thing.

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 But we just want to know what is true,

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 that God calls you and me to be people of the truth.

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 And the gospel comes into our lives to start to be able to give us the type of security with God

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 and security with ourselves that we can start to believe the truth is our friend,

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 that clarity is our friend.

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 And that knowing the truth doesn't necessarily, shouldn't make you arrogant or proud,

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 but it's just good to know the truth.

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 And the gospel will lead us in that way, will form us in that way.

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 But somebody might say, okay, George,

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 if you could put down the third point,

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 teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth,

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 unite my heart to fear your name.

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 But George, come on.

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 Like fear?

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 Like, George, isn't it wiser to try to learn to live without fear?

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 Like, why is it that you would want to tell people to pray that they would fear your name?

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 And just so you know, name in the psalm is a way of actually saying fear you,

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 fear God, fear who you are in your truth,

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 your reality, your essence, all that you are.

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 It's all sort of capsulated.

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 It's sort of a way that the Jewish people would try to encapsulate

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 knowing God as he really is.

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 And they'd use the word name because God names himself.

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 He reveals himself.

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 And so to fear your name is to fear God as you really are,

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 as you've truly revealed yourself as you really are.

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 And so some might say, George,

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 why on earth do you think it's a good thing

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 to want to encourage people to actually fear God?

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 Like, isn't it better to learn that God is a God of love,

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 that God is your friend, that...

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 And I don't know, what is this stuff, George,

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 about uniting your heart to fear him?

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 Like, George, don't you think it's a better thing

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 to try to just figure out what's going on in your heart

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 at your deepest level and just trying to be true to it?

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 Like, George, isn't that what our gay and lesbian

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 and bisexual and transgendered friends have really taught us,

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 that you just need to try to be true about who you are,

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 your basic identity,

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 and not to be able to fear it

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 and not tie it to some God or anything like that.

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 Like, George, what you're asking us to pray for

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 just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

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 Those are very good comments.

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 Like, they really are.

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 And here's, I think, why this is so wise.

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 Teach me your way, O Lord.

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 Remember, when we pray that,

00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:39.920
 we're praying that the gospel will...

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 that we're really, what we're asking as Christians

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 is when we ask to know your way,

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 it's not a matter of us knowing the rules

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:48.859
 that God wants us to follow to make us right with him

00:26:48.859 --> 00:26:51.359
 or to make ourselves look good

00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:54.079
 or manipulate God or get anything from God

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 or put him in his favor,

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 but it's really just acknowledging

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 that none of that works at all.

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 And we're asking the Father to have the Holy Spirit

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 teach our heart at a deeper and deeper level

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 the truth of the gospel,

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 that Jesus has done everything to make us right with him.

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 And when I say that I may walk in your truth,

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 it's not that we're saying that everything that's true

00:27:14.659 --> 00:27:16.240
 that matters is in the Bible,

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 but everything in the Bible is true,

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 but that God is inviting us to be a people of the truth.

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 And so when it says,

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 unite my heart to fear your name,

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 here's the truth about you and me.

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 Every human heart is splintered

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 and broken and contradictory.

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 Every human heart is splintered

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 and broken and contradictory.

00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:52.679
 We want to have more money,

00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:55.679
 but we don't want to be materialistic.

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 We want to be completely and utterly fiercely independent

00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:03.279
 of ourselves,

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 and we'd love to have a life partner

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 that can be with us.

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 We'd like to have children,

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 but we don't really want to change their diapers

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 or have them wake up ten times in a night

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 because they're puking their guts out.

00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:26.119
 We want to be really popular,

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 but we don't want to be those shallow people

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:32.119
 who want to be popular.

00:28:34.179 --> 00:28:36.379
 We want to be really fit,

00:28:38.139 --> 00:28:40.239
 but we'd also like to eat lots of poutine

00:28:40.239 --> 00:28:41.879
 and watch Netflix.

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 And we'd like to be thought of as good,

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 but we'd also like to be known as a bit dangerous,

00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:52.280
 edgy.

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 And we could just keep multiplying it,

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 and for different generations,

00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:58.820
 you're going to add different things.

00:28:58.819 --> 00:28:59.879
 But the fact of the matter is

00:28:59.879 --> 00:29:01.960
 is that our human hearts are splintered and contradictory.

00:29:02.539 --> 00:29:03.599
 Which is the real me?

00:29:05.659 --> 00:29:06.839
 Like, which is the real me?

00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:11.980
 You know, the fact of the matter is

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:14.539
 we want to be faithful to our spouse,

00:29:14.859 --> 00:29:17.700
 and we also want to potentially imagine

00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:19.700
 having sex with people who aren't our spouse

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:21.399
 or be found attractive by others.

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.500
 You can keep multiplying this time and time again.

00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:24.819
 Which is the real me?

00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:27.319
 And that's separate from the fact

00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:28.519
 that for many of us,

00:29:28.579 --> 00:29:29.740
 our hearts have been broken.

00:29:29.919 --> 00:29:31.139
 Our hearts have been crushed.

00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:35.379
 Our hearts are weighed down.

00:29:35.500 --> 00:29:36.480
 Our hearts are heavy.

00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:39.599
 The fact of the matter is

00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:41.139
 is that if we take a moment

00:29:41.139 --> 00:29:42.659
 to think about it for a second,

00:29:43.399 --> 00:29:45.059
 what most of us would like

00:29:45.059 --> 00:29:46.839
 would be to have our hearts be healed

00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.159
 and to be made whole.

00:29:50.659 --> 00:29:53.579
 To no longer have our hearts ruled

00:29:53.579 --> 00:29:55.679
 with it being splintered and broken

00:29:55.679 --> 00:29:56.919
 and battered and bruised

00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:57.860
 and contradictory

00:29:57.860 --> 00:30:00.519
 and going in different directions,

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.740
 that on one level,

00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:05.519
 this prayer is exactly

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:08.120
 what people really want,

00:30:08.580 --> 00:30:10.460
 that our hearts would be one.

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:14.180
 That there'd be a basic type of coherence

00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:15.220
 and order

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:17.200
 and wholeness

00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:18.340
 to our hearts

00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:19.340
 that aren't contradictory.

00:30:19.339 --> 00:30:23.339
 But then some of you say,

00:30:23.419 --> 00:30:24.379
 well, George, what's up with that?

00:30:24.439 --> 00:30:24.939
 That makes sense.

00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:26.359
 But gosh,

00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:27.980
 unite my heart to fear your name?

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:29.799
 Like, that doesn't seem to make any sense.

00:30:30.439 --> 00:30:32.119
 It doesn't make any sense to say,

00:30:32.379 --> 00:30:33.399
 like, I could say, George,

00:30:33.439 --> 00:30:34.599
 I could have prayed with that prayer.

00:30:34.659 --> 00:30:35.379
 If you just said,

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.199
 well, unite my heart,

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:38.319
 like,

00:30:38.819 --> 00:30:40.419
 unite my heart,

00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:42.059
 and, you know,

00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:42.740
 you could have,

00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.480
 that could be a greeting card.

00:30:44.699 --> 00:30:45.759
 Unite my heart.

00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:47.240
 And then if you just said,

00:30:47.299 --> 00:30:49.420
 unite my heart to dot, dot, dot, dot,

00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:52.059
 that would be a profoundly Christian greeting card.

00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:54.279
 Unite my heart to love,

00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:54.980
 to joy,

00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:55.960
 to dance,

00:30:56.019 --> 00:30:57.180
 to be independent.

00:30:57.379 --> 00:30:57.599
 You know,

00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:59.379
 the very, very funny thing is that

00:30:59.379 --> 00:31:00.079
 we Canadians,

00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:01.000
 we want to have a business,

00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:02.279
 like a greeting card that says,

00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.019
 unite my heart to dot, dot, dot,

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:05.859
 and then realize that the reason we want

00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:07.039
 dot, dot, dot after it

00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:08.700
 is precisely because our heart isn't united.

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:10.759
 We want a whole pile of contradictory things

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:13.779
 that work against each other.

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:15.259
 Be united.

00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:15.920
 I mean,

00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:16.619
 be independent.

00:31:16.819 --> 00:31:17.619
 Be compassionate.

00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:18.259
 You know,

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:19.180
 be decisive.

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.740
 Be open.

00:31:23.180 --> 00:31:23.579
 So, George,

00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:25.220
 I don't understand how this text

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:26.000
 wants to say me,

00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:27.920
 unite my heart to fear your name.

00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:30.660
 Well, remember,

00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:32.279
 everything to see in the text

00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.859
 is to be seen in light of the gospel.

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:37.759
 St. Augustine a long time ago said,

00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:39.759
 you have made us for yourself

00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:41.259
 and our hearts are restless

00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:42.359
 till they rest in you.

00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:46.180
 You have made us for yourself

00:31:46.180 --> 00:31:47.299
 and our hearts are restless

00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:48.680
 till they rest in you.

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:49.619
 I mean,

00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.259
 the wisdom of the Bible

00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:52.720
 is that we are creatures.

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.879
 We aren't gods with small g's.

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:56.700
 We are creatures.

00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:58.379
 And as creatures,

00:31:58.859 --> 00:32:00.339
 God made us

00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:01.960
 to be connected to him

00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:03.740
 and united with him.

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:05.119
 In a sense,

00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:07.119
 we are never

00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:08.799
 properly centered

00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:10.459
 or whole

00:32:10.459 --> 00:32:12.679
 until we're connected to God,

00:32:12.939 --> 00:32:13.959
 reconciled to God.

00:32:14.539 --> 00:32:16.259
 Until we're reconciled to God,

00:32:16.339 --> 00:32:17.500
 our hearts will always

00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:18.299
 be contradictory

00:32:18.299 --> 00:32:19.359
 and splintered.

00:32:20.719 --> 00:32:21.039
 And so,

00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:21.799
 what this prayer

00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:22.699
 is praying us for

00:32:22.699 --> 00:32:23.839
 in terms of the fearing

00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.219
 of the name of the Lord

00:32:25.219 --> 00:32:26.379
 is

00:32:26.379 --> 00:32:28.639
 it's asking something

00:32:28.639 --> 00:32:29.799
 that if we think about it

00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.439
 a little bit,

00:32:30.479 --> 00:32:31.239
 it's actually a very,

00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:32.919
 very common human problem

00:32:32.919 --> 00:32:35.379
 that gets magnified

00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:37.040
 a hundred million times

00:32:37.040 --> 00:32:38.220
 when it comes to God.

00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:39.960
 So,

00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:41.040
 think of a very,

00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:42.440
 very standard problem

00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:44.020
 in a couple.

00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:46.120
 In a couple,

00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:46.460
 a very,

00:32:46.540 --> 00:32:47.680
 very standard problem

00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:48.820
 is that I can start

00:32:48.820 --> 00:32:49.400
 to forget

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:50.800
 that Louise

00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:52.020
 is different than me.

00:32:53.060 --> 00:32:54.420
 And I can easily

00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:55.500
 start to imagine

00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:57.280
 that what I want

00:32:57.280 --> 00:32:58.800
 is what Louise wants.

00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.240
 what will make me happy

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:01.259
 is what will make

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:02.440
 Louise happy.

00:33:02.879 --> 00:33:04.139
 That what I plan

00:33:04.139 --> 00:33:05.480
 is what Louise

00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:06.599
 wants to plan.

00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:08.379
 I can start to forget

00:33:08.379 --> 00:33:09.299
 that Louise

00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:10.539
 is different than me.

00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:12.599
 Now,

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.019
 I'm really protected

00:33:16.019 --> 00:33:16.440
 in that

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:17.419
 for two reasons.

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.680
 One is,

00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:20.700
 Louise will get mad at me

00:33:20.700 --> 00:33:24.480
 completely and utterly properly

00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:25.599
 when I start

00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:26.759
 to overwhelm her

00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:28.180
 and think that somehow

00:33:28.180 --> 00:33:29.259
 everything I want,

00:33:29.379 --> 00:33:30.259
 everything I think

00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:30.759
 is right,

00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:32.039
 everything I think

00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:32.960
 is the best way to do it

00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:34.500
 is exactly how she thinks

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.240
 and she'll get mad at me

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.200
 because she's real

00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:38.279
 and she's right there

00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.059
 and she should be mad at me.

00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:41.559
 She's doing the right thing

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.660
 to be upset.

00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:44.379
 And so,

00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:45.400
 at least there's some type

00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.079
 of a proper protection

00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:48.000
 against that.

00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:49.339
 But what's it like

00:33:49.339 --> 00:33:50.039
 with God?

00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:52.740
 I mean,

00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:53.980
 the fact of the matter is

00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:54.599
 that it becomes

00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:55.720
 very easy,

00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.799
 this is cutting in and out.

00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:57.779
 Is that just me?

00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:02.019
 I don't know why

00:34:02.019 --> 00:34:02.640
 it's cutting in and out.

00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:03.460
 I'll just keep talking.

00:34:03.620 --> 00:34:05.579
 The light's not flashing at me

00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:06.279
 which means it needs

00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:06.799
 a new battery.

00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:07.579
 Anyway,

00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:07.920
 so,

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:09.619
 what this idea

00:34:09.619 --> 00:34:11.199
 of the fear of the Lord is

00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:12.980
 is that the gospel

00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:13.840
 starts to come

00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:14.840
 into our hearts

00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:16.000
 and into our minds

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.300
 and into our lives

00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:19.119
 so that it starts

00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:19.920
 to teach me

00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.880
 and train me

00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:22.179
 as to the difference

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:23.400
 between me and God

00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:24.400
 that I no longer

00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:25.599
 get confused

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.920
 about who I am

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:28.860
 and who God is.

00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.920
 Where I get to know

00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:32.039
 more and more and more

00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:33.280
 where I begin

00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:33.940
 and end

00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:34.980
 and my edges

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:36.160
 even at the level

00:34:36.160 --> 00:34:36.940
 of my will

00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:37.900
 and my affections

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:38.599
 and my emotions

00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:39.660
 and where God is

00:34:39.660 --> 00:34:41.320
 that I understand

00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:42.059
 that I'm different

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:43.340
 and separate from God.

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:47.760
 and that as the gospel

00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:48.800
 comes into my life

00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.940
 to tell me more and more

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:51.380
 and teach me who God is

00:34:51.380 --> 00:34:51.960
 and teach me

00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.280
 who I myself am

00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:55.460
 it begins to work

00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:55.920
 within me

00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:57.039
 so I know my edges

00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:58.519
 and I know God's edges

00:34:58.519 --> 00:34:59.760
 and I know that God

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:00.960
 is different than me

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.240
 and I don't confuse

00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:04.800
 my will with God's will

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.200
 and my pleasure

00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:07.260
 with God's pleasure

00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:08.039
 and my hopes

00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:09.120
 with God's hopes

00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:11.240
 that the gospel

00:35:11.240 --> 00:35:12.480
 gives me a context

00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:13.559
 whereby I start

00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:14.360
 to understand

00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:15.400
 I'm not God

00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:16.280
 and that's good

00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.300
 but at the same time

00:35:18.300 --> 00:35:18.980
 as the gospel

00:35:18.980 --> 00:35:19.920
 starts to create

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.019
 within me this sense

00:35:21.019 --> 00:35:22.199
 that God is completely

00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:23.219
 and utterly different

00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:24.079
 from me

00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:25.559
 yet at the same time

00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:26.760
 the gospel communicates

00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:27.380
 to me that God

00:35:27.380 --> 00:35:28.300
 is close to me

00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:29.139
 that he wants me

00:35:29.139 --> 00:35:29.920
 to know him

00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.579
 he wants me

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:33.420
 to love him

00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:34.119
 he wants me

00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:35.199
 to yearn for him

00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:35.860
 he wants me

00:35:35.860 --> 00:35:37.079
 to desire to taste

00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:38.219
 more and more of him

00:35:38.219 --> 00:35:40.159
 but at the same time

00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:41.199
 I never do that

00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:42.460
 or the gospel

00:35:42.460 --> 00:35:43.340
 starts to train us

00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:43.980
 to learn never

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:44.500
 to do that

00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:45.380
 thinking that somehow

00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:46.079
 God and me

00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:46.880
 are the same

00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:48.820
 or that my plans

00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:49.480
 and my desires

00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:50.380
 are the same

00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:52.420
 and it's the work

00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:53.400
 of the Holy Spirit

00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:54.860
 to create within us

00:35:54.860 --> 00:35:56.059
 this sense of God

00:35:56.059 --> 00:35:57.440
 being so different

00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:58.179
 from me

00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:01.900
 and so other than me

00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:03.679
 and that I am not God

00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:05.000
 but that that's good

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.500
 and the whole process

00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:10.579
 this whole naming

00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:11.880
 of it in the Old Testament

00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:12.900
 is calling the fearing

00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:13.460
 of the Lord

00:36:13.460 --> 00:36:14.380
 and it's not just

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:15.219
 an Old Testament idea

00:36:15.219 --> 00:36:16.019
 it's in the New Testament

00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:17.159
 if you go back later on

00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:18.179
 and read Acts chapter 9

00:36:18.179 --> 00:36:18.900
 verse 31

00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:20.079
 one of the things

00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:21.440
 that Acts 9 31 says

00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:22.119
 is that the church

00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:22.760
 was growing

00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:24.400
 in the fear of the Lord

00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:24.880
 and the comfort

00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:25.719
 of the Holy Spirit

00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:26.719
 because it's the role

00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:27.440
 of the Holy Spirit

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:28.400
 to help me to know

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:29.820
 how different I am

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:30.300
 from God

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:31.380
 to not confuse

00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:32.019
 my wants

00:36:32.019 --> 00:36:32.940
 with God's wants

00:36:32.940 --> 00:36:34.159
 my imagination

00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.619
 with God's imagination

00:36:35.619 --> 00:36:37.059
 my happiness

00:36:37.059 --> 00:36:38.219
 with God's happiness

00:36:38.219 --> 00:36:39.900
 it starts to teach me

00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:40.659
 and train me

00:36:40.659 --> 00:36:41.440
 about the difference

00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:42.440
 between me and God

00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:43.619
 and to be comfortable

00:36:43.619 --> 00:36:44.219
 with the fact

00:36:44.219 --> 00:36:45.059
 that that is good

00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:46.119
 and that I shouldn't want

00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:46.980
 to try to usurp

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:47.699
 God's role

00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:48.900
 and the reason

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:49.920
 the word fear

00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:50.799
 is used

00:36:50.799 --> 00:36:52.199
 is because

00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.279
 on one hand

00:36:54.279 --> 00:36:55.299
 as a person

00:36:55.299 --> 00:36:55.779
 who's been

00:36:55.779 --> 00:36:57.519
 has the gospel

00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.920
 I realize

00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:02.719
 with a type of fear

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:03.440
 and loathing

00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:04.360
 or you start

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:05.000
 to get trained

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:05.619
 by the gospel

00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:06.059
 to realize

00:37:06.059 --> 00:37:06.639
 that when you start

00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:07.659
 to actually transgress

00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:08.380
 as if you're

00:37:08.380 --> 00:37:10.019
 imagining

00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:10.579
 or pretending

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:11.400
 that you're God

00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:12.920
 that you get

00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.079
 convicted of sin

00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:17.440
 and the word fear

00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:18.420
 then starts to become

00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:19.639
 a word of awe

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.220
 of awe of God

00:37:22.220 --> 00:37:23.720
 of just how

00:37:23.720 --> 00:37:24.659
 who he is

00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.619
 in and of himself

00:37:25.619 --> 00:37:27.720
 and I am not God

00:37:27.720 --> 00:37:28.800
 and he is infinite

00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:29.619
 and I am finite

00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:30.519
 and he's the creator

00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:31.360
 and I am a creature

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:32.840
 he is outside

00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:33.640
 of all time

00:37:33.640 --> 00:37:34.720
 I am in time

00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:37.460
 and his thoughts

00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:38.500
 are higher than mine

00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:39.079
 his wisdom

00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:40.180
 is greater than mine

00:37:40.180 --> 00:37:41.380
 his purity

00:37:41.380 --> 00:37:42.519
 is different than mine

00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.039
 and it's only

00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:46.079
 as I'm reconciled

00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:46.579
 to God

00:37:46.579 --> 00:37:47.579
 that that starts

00:37:47.579 --> 00:37:48.480
 to make any type

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.300
 of a sense

00:37:49.300 --> 00:37:49.980
 of the goodness

00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:50.960
 and properness

00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:51.340
 of it

00:37:51.340 --> 00:37:52.740
 and I don't want

00:37:52.740 --> 00:37:53.360
 to talk to you

00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:54.220
 as if I've achieved

00:37:54.220 --> 00:37:55.100
 all of these things

00:37:55.100 --> 00:37:55.720
 all I'm trying

00:37:55.720 --> 00:37:56.240
 to tell you

00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:56.700
 is that's what

00:37:56.700 --> 00:37:57.620
 the fear of the Lord

00:37:57.620 --> 00:37:58.860
 is

00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.880
 and why it is

00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:00.380
 that we want

00:38:00.380 --> 00:38:01.059
 to pray it

00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:02.300
 we want

00:38:02.300 --> 00:38:02.880
 to pray

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:03.860
 to know

00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:04.380
 the fear

00:38:04.380 --> 00:38:04.960
 of the Lord

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.680
 because it will

00:38:05.680 --> 00:38:06.559
 only help you

00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:06.860
 to know

00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:07.760
 who you are

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:09.119
 and how you're

00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:09.960
 not God

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:11.160
 and how God

00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:11.700
 is God

00:38:11.700 --> 00:38:12.820
 we know this

00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:13.420
 in a very very

00:38:13.420 --> 00:38:14.260
 tiny little way

00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:15.539
 when we're non-Christians

00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:16.559
 because

00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:18.440
 what happens

00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:19.160
 and actually

00:38:19.160 --> 00:38:19.840
 even in our

00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:20.700
 fallen selves

00:38:20.700 --> 00:38:21.940
 is that

00:38:21.940 --> 00:38:24.680
 when we bump

00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:25.480
 up against God

00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:26.300
 or get too close

00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:26.700
 to God

00:38:26.700 --> 00:38:27.220
 we realize

00:38:27.220 --> 00:38:27.640
 that we're not

00:38:27.640 --> 00:38:28.400
 I'm not going

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:28.880
 to go that direction

00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.079
 I'm going

00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:29.720
 to confuse you

00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:30.160
 we're just going

00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:30.420
 to keep

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:31.000
 with the other thing

00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:33.019
 I want to encourage

00:38:33.019 --> 00:38:33.280
 you

00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:34.220
 this is why

00:38:34.220 --> 00:38:35.400
 the line works

00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:35.720
 together

00:38:35.720 --> 00:38:36.539
 unite my heart

00:38:36.539 --> 00:38:37.519
 to fear your name

00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:39.200
 is that as the gospel

00:38:39.200 --> 00:38:40.360
 comes into our life

00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:41.900
 it starts to create

00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:42.720
 the context

00:38:42.720 --> 00:38:43.119
 whereby

00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:45.000
 my heart

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:45.760
 can be healed

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.980
 and I can have

00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:48.619
 one heart

00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:51.039
 and it even

00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:52.119
 it means

00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:53.099
 that in my prayer

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:53.700
 I can say

00:38:53.700 --> 00:38:54.019
 Father

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:54.900
 I confess

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:55.539
 before you

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:56.579
 I'm so divided

00:38:56.579 --> 00:38:57.920
 I'm so contradictory

00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.019
 I'm so scattered

00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:00.519
 Father

00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:01.900
 unite my heart

00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:03.920
 and so much

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.960
 of my scatteredness

00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:05.599
 is connecting

00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:06.880
 to want to be like God

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.579
 or take God's role

00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:09.340
 or be

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:10.539
 more important

00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:11.159
 or greater

00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:12.139
 or be the center

00:39:12.139 --> 00:39:13.200
 or any of those things

00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:13.700
 and Father

00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:14.740
 I don't want to do

00:39:14.740 --> 00:39:15.539
 any of those things

00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:16.559
 unite my heart

00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:17.180
 to you

00:39:17.180 --> 00:39:18.039
 to fear you

00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:19.079
 to know your name

00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:20.639
 to know who you are

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:21.300
 to know that

00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:23.760
 I've been made

00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:24.480
 in your image

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:25.460
 you're not made in mine

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:26.579
 you are my creator

00:39:26.579 --> 00:39:27.900
 I am not your creator

00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:29.220
 you are not a creature

00:39:29.220 --> 00:39:30.200
 I am the creature

00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:30.539
 Father

00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:31.720
 unite my heart

00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:33.059
 make me whole

00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:34.440
 unite my heart

00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:34.820
 Father

00:39:34.820 --> 00:39:36.019
 around who you are

00:39:36.019 --> 00:39:37.039
 to be reconciled

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.559
 with you

00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:38.119
 Father

00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:39.039
 unite my heart

00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:40.059
 to fear your name

00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:41.380
 to never

00:39:41.380 --> 00:39:42.519
 just to have a deep

00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:43.800
 settled fear

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:44.660
 that I will ever

00:39:44.660 --> 00:39:45.800
 start to transgress

00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:46.480
 my life

00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:47.300
 in such a way

00:39:47.300 --> 00:39:48.880
 that I start to think

00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:49.700
 that I am God

00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:50.619
 or that I am great

00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:51.639
 or that I am over you

00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:51.980
 Father

00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:53.059
 help me to have

00:39:53.059 --> 00:39:54.039
 a proper fear

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:55.099
 of transgressing

00:39:55.099 --> 00:39:56.000
 into your realm

00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:56.440
 Father

00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:57.720
 unite my heart

00:39:57.720 --> 00:39:58.599
 make my heart

00:39:58.599 --> 00:39:59.240
 whole

00:39:59.240 --> 00:40:01.599
 connected to who you are

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 and that I am a creature

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 redeemed by Jesus

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 I am a sinner

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 redeemed by Jesus

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 I am

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 I am one

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 who is far from God

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 and your son

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 crossed that

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 infinite distance

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 that I could not cross

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 your son crossed that

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 to bring me to you

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 I could never

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 come to you

00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:20.900
 your son

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 has brought me to you

00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:22.159
 Father

00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:23.420
 unite my heart

00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:24.619
 to fear your name

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 please stand

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 just invite you to

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 say this psalm with me

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 this is one verse

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 I mean the main thing

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 about this I guess

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 is I just want to

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 encourage you to

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 memorize the verse

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 and I

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 I mean the thing

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 that I've been trying

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 to work out all week

00:40:48.139 --> 00:40:49.240
 because I memorized it

00:40:49.240 --> 00:40:49.860
 quite quickly

00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:51.280
 this particular verse

00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.180
 is

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 I'm trying to pray it

00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:55.200
 every day

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 because I need it

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 I need to be reminded

00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.700
 of the gospel

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 and I need to walk

00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.240
 in the truth

00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:03.220
 and I need to walk

00:41:03.220 --> 00:41:04.860
 I need to have my heart

00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:05.220
 united

00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:05.820
 and I want to

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 I need to have my heart

00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:09.220
 fear God

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 so

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 if will you just

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 say this with me now

00:41:13.059 --> 00:41:13.539
 as a prayer

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 and I'll close with prayer

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 teach me your way

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.319
 oh Lord

00:41:17.319 --> 00:41:18.759
 that I may walk

00:41:18.759 --> 00:41:19.679
 in your truth

00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:21.400
 unite my heart

00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:22.559
 to fear your name

00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.059
 Father

00:41:24.059 --> 00:41:26.339
 we ask that the Holy Spirit

00:41:26.339 --> 00:41:27.099
 would move mightily

00:41:27.099 --> 00:41:27.779
 in our lives

00:41:27.779 --> 00:41:29.219
 I ask that the Holy Spirit

00:41:29.219 --> 00:41:29.920
 would move mightily

00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:30.579
 in my life

00:41:30.579 --> 00:41:32.519
 and I ask Father

00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:32.940
 that

00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:34.619
 as the Holy Spirit

00:41:34.619 --> 00:41:35.420
 comes deeply

00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:36.339
 into my life

00:41:36.339 --> 00:41:37.460
 Father

00:41:37.460 --> 00:41:37.980
 that

00:41:37.980 --> 00:41:40.759
 that the gospel

00:41:40.759 --> 00:41:42.519
 will become real

00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:43.480
 more real

00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:44.320
 to my mind

00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:44.960
 more real

00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.900
 to my plans

00:41:45.900 --> 00:41:47.039
 more real

00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:47.900
 to my memories

00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:49.119
 more real

00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:49.900
 to my guilt

00:41:49.900 --> 00:41:51.780
 more real

00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:52.760
 to my shame

00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:54.240
 more real

00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:54.639
 Father

00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:55.599
 to every part

00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:56.260
 of who I am

00:41:56.260 --> 00:41:56.579
 Father

00:41:56.579 --> 00:41:58.500
 I ask that the Holy Spirit

00:41:58.500 --> 00:41:59.860
 would move deeply

00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:00.460
 within me

00:42:00.460 --> 00:42:01.219
 so that I would know

00:42:01.219 --> 00:42:01.920
 more fully

00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:03.240
 who Jesus is

00:42:03.240 --> 00:42:05.000
 how much he loves me

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.159
 and how much

00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:06.719
 he accomplished

00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:07.360
 for me

00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.019
 in his sinless life

00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:10.440
 and sin bearing

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:12.139
 substitutionary

00:42:12.139 --> 00:42:13.219
 sacrificial

00:42:13.219 --> 00:42:13.619
 death

00:42:13.619 --> 00:42:14.019
 Father

00:42:14.019 --> 00:42:15.119
 bring the gospel

00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.000
 home to me

00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.419
 in an ever deeper

00:42:17.419 --> 00:42:18.279
 and realer way

00:42:18.279 --> 00:42:19.199
 through the work

00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:20.099
 of your Holy Spirit

00:42:20.099 --> 00:42:20.919
 and I ask this

00:42:20.919 --> 00:42:21.759
 in Jesus name

00:42:21.759 --> 00:42:22.480
 Amen

00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:28.179
 praying for my sins

00:42:28.179 --> 00:42:28.619
 Amen

00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:29.599
 paradise

00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.539
 amen

00:42:31.539 --> 00:42:31.780
方

00:42:32.219 --> 00:42:33.199
 creative

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速り

00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.320
 passage

00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:35.460
 ainsi

00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:37.039
 muş

00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:49.340
神